A HarperCollins insider told The Daily Beast that the book [ Going Rogue ] sold a staggering 300,000 copies on the first day alone, which was Tuesday. “Sales are phenomenal, and we are convinced that the book will continue to sell phenomenally for some time to come,” says the insider. They’re not prevaricating: As of 2:30pm today, the book was #1 on Amazon…
While Hannity’s audience of more than 4 million viewers with the author of Going Rogue aboard at the start of her national book tour well exceeded the 2 million-plus turnout that the FOX evening news got with a long-sought Obama interview, both shows were ratings leaders for the No. 1 cable news network:
Hannity’s ratings were his second-highest for the year, according to the Nielsen Media Research count, and he beat the network’s top-drawing Bill O’Reilly, who had 3.868 million viewers Wednesday night.
Nielsen found that FOX News Channel’s Hannity drew 4.2 million viewers with Palin’s appearance - far surpassing the competition in the time slot: MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, with 957,000 viewers, and CNN’s Larry King, with 835,000.
FOX’s Special Report with Bret Baier, airing an interview of Obama conducted by FOX White House correspondent Major Garrett in China, drew 2.235 million viewers - a number which FOX will take as a sign of playng to a wide audience.
This is now an Open Thread.
Enjoy.
and warning . . .
Friday, November 20, is “National Kick a Ginger Day”.
Ok - so this is another one of those pathetically impotent Canadian ”Holidays”, mostly cuz Canada has to import their minorities. I mean, sure—they’ve got Eskimos, but seriously.... Ya wanna kick someone who kills and eats polar bears? With pointy sticks?!? Ermm, No. So who’s left—that’s right: us gingers. Lame, but there ya have it.
BTW, anyone wanting to bring this hate crime festival to The States be warned: we’re erm… they might be armed. Ya never know, yanno?
11/19 at 01:52 PM •
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This is a woman who has got into a position of leadership by sending very powerful sexual signals. And we see that in the way that men like her much more than women do…
Major Nidal Hasan seemed worried about the results of an HIV blood test taken a week before the Fort Hood shooting rampage, according to federal investigators piecing together background details on Hasan’s life.
The information came from a member of the Fort Hood medical staff who was in the building where Hasan is accused of opening fire on November 5 and killing 13 people.
The investigators said there was no indication that Hasan was HIV positive, although a bottle of medicine used to treat HIV-positive individuals, Combivir, was seen in Hasan’s apartment by ABC News last week. Medical experts say many doctors also have Combivir on hand in case of an accidental needle stick. A second drug seen in the apartment, clarithromycin, is an antibiotic designed to treat respiratory infections. However, it can also be used to treat specific opportunistic infections in patients with HIV.
Hasan, who is not married, was a regular at a Killeen, Texas strip club which features nude dancers, according to employees there…
Investigators said Hasan followed his own strict interpretation of how a Muslim should live --
Obama arrived on the base 3:19 p.m. local time (1 a.m. Eastern Standard Time), and received a rousing welcome from 1,500 troops in camouflage uniforms, many holding cameras or pointing cell phones to snap pictures.
”You guys make a pretty good photo op,” the president said.
Standing on a riser wearing a blue suit and red tie, with a cluster of troops and a large American flag behind him, Obama expressed “the gratitude of the American public” and said his meetings in four countries over eight days in Asia will help deliver a “safer more prosperous world for all of us.”
He got a huge cheer when he told them he was increasing military pay. ”That’s what you call an applause line,” he said, before boarding his jet and taking off at 4:11 p.m.
No word if their salary increase would be a cost of living raise or combat pay.....
Mother says school work sheet is racist
Lenape Middle School principal Nick Chubb said administrators are investigating the matter.
When she was helping her son with his homework Saturday night, a Central Bucks mother noticed something that surprised and shocked her.
”I couldn’t understand what I was looking at,” ...
RUSH: Would you like to hear an interesting little Biden story? He was in Las Vegas recently, where corporate executives have been discouraged from going by President Obama; getting on their planes, flying to Vegas—those days are over. But “Nobody Messes With Joe [Plugs] Biden”—was in Las Vegas to do a fundraiser for some Democrat out there, and had an aide call a local members-only golf course, a pretty exclusive members-only golf course. The club pro who answered the phone said, “No, no, no. Sorry. We like the vice president and all that, but this is a members-only club,” and they hung up the phone.
A short while later another phone call came, this time asking for the manager of the club. The message was: “Look, [Plugs] Biden really wants to play your course.” The call came in at 7 a.m., and he wanted to play that day. The second call came in before 8 a.m., I’m told. The club manager, realizing what he was being told, relented, and Plugs Biden showed up with some Secret Service guys at 11 a.m. to play the course.
Now, keep in mind, ladies and gentlemen, that corporate executives and the entire hospitality business have been under assault by this very president and vice president. They can’t go to Vegas, they’re not supposed to hop on their planes and go to Vegas, they’re not supposed to play golf at exclusive members-only clubs. I will guarantee you, if a Republican vice president had done this, the media would right now be scouring the membership to find out how discriminatory it is. Are there any blacks in this club that the vice president played? Are there any Jewish members of this club? Do they allow women? That’s what the media would be doing right now.The only story we’re getting out of this is a local Las Vegas newspaper, and, of course, this is how the elites do it: They want to go play golf where they’re not a member, they want to angle themselves in using the force of federal power and intimidation, they do it. The media doesn’t say a word about it. They say, “Old Joe is out there playing golf before a fundraiser, there’s Joe Cool.” Republicans try that and the media takes on the club trying to find out who belongs, who was not admitted, and why. And then they would also be doing stories about, “Here we are in a recession, 10.2% unemployment, we got Marines dying and military people dying in Afghanistan, we’re dithering on whether we should win the war over there, nothing is going right, the president’s out of the country, the vice president wants to play golf and all?”—that’s what we’d be getting if Plugs were a Republican. But we’re not getting anything of the sort.
The Rev. Jesse ["the overseer"] Jackson on Wednesday night criticized Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) for voting against the Democrats’ signature healthcare bill.
“We even have blacks voting against the healthcare bill,” Jackson said at a reception Wednesday night. “You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.” ...
Shut up! I’ll tell you what blacks have to do. Blacks belong to me. *whipcrack*
(Lagreeist jackass)
Conyers ain’t too all-fired happy. What’s Jesse say?
Before sunrise, fans of Sarah Palin wait in line at Woodland Mall to get a bracelet to see Sarah Palin and get her signed autographed book, “Going Rogue.” Palin starts signing books at 6 pm.
Here’s the protocol.
Oh, just a tiny thing: one target was the building and personnel of US military headquarters.
Not for profit and not for loot, the objective was military; and the attack was an act of war.
This civil prosecution is either an act of foolishness, or an act of treachery.
give a listen...this is goooood
SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM, (R-S.C): Can you give me a case in United States history where a enemy combatant caught on a battlefield was tried in civilian court?
ERIC HOLDER, ATTORNEY GENERAL: I don’t know. I’d have to look at that. I think that, you know, the determination I’ve made --
GRAHAM: We’re making history here, Mr. Attorney General. I’ll answer it for you. The answer is no.
Please join me in co-sponsorship of a resolution, H. Con. Res. 155, to designate the day prior to Thanksgiving as Complaint Free Wednesday.
From time to time, we all experience anxiety, frustration, stress, and regret. And often, we respond to these feelings with a criticism or a complaint. Regrettably, complaining keeps people stuck on current problems, inhibiting them from thinking constructively to find solutions…
Y’know, my memory’s hazy so correct me if I’m wrong...but even at the very peak of Bush hatred, when the nonstop cries of shrill outrage hit a pitch even small dogs can’t hear, I can’t recall ANYONE in the government, congressman Cleaver included, suggesting anything even remotely like this.
Jim Mohr of Gonzaga University trying to figure out what makes one group of people hate another. He is developing a new academic field on the topic though the Institute for Action Against Hate at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash.
and another term for this...?
On his maiden Asia swing, Obama has made a vivid display of his own trademark style — the diplomacy of deference.
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White House aides say the approach is deliberate — part of Obama’s determination to deliver on his campaign promise of directly engaging friends and enemies alike, giving America a less belligerent posture abroad.
“I think it’s very important for the United States not to assume that what is good for us is automatically good for somebody else,” Obama told the students at the town hall, in Shanghai. “And we have to have some modesty about our attitudes towards other countries.”
Yeah. Human Dignity and Freedom of the Individual—just another choice among equals…
The approach also invests deep faith in the power of Obama’s personal presence—a belief that a calm and reasonable style will summon calm and reasonable responses around the world.
“He believes in vigorous engagement around the world — in strong alliances, in confronting our adversaries and standing up for human rights by making these points in a very public way,” Axelrod said. “He is confident. He’s someone who’s leading from strength and a deep belief in who America is and what we stand for. That confidence is reflected in the way he conducts himself on the world stage.”
He really thinks we’re all on drugs, doesn’t he?
A senior administration official called the bow to Emperor Akihito a “sign of respect,” adding that the depth of the bow reflected “the level of respect.”
“This is part of what the president says all the time — that he wants to be mindful of other cultures,” the official said. “That doesn’t take anything away from our culture.”
mindful…
Axelrod said skepticism about Obama’s approach is a reflection of the nation’s “A.D.D. political culture, in which every day is Election Day and people want all results immediately.
Keep molesting that chicken, David. We buy it—Mmm… mmm ...mmm.
11/18 at 09:28 AM •
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Levi Johnston was lie-telling about how much he bared for Playgirl. Despite reports, he didn’t pose full frontal.
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People who will be viewing online or in print are going to be short changed. A spokesperson for Playgirl told Us magazine that Johnston did not go full frontal and essentially called his camp a bunch of lairs for suggesting as much.
Sorry, guys.
In 2002 Responsible Travel became one of the first travel companies to offer customers the option of buying so-called carbon offsets to counter the planet-warming emissions
But in October, Responsible Travel canceled the program, saying that while it might help travelers feel virtuous, it was not helping to reduce global emissions. In fact, company officials said, it might even encourage some people to travel or consume more.
“The carbon offset has become this magic pill, a kind of get-out-of-jail-free card,” Justin Francis, the managing director of Responsible Travel, said in an interview. “It’s seductive to the consumer who says, ‘It’s $4 and I’m carbon-neutral, so I can fly all I want.“‘
Offsets, he argues, are distracting people from making more significant behavioral changes, like flying less.
duh
Being with all these inspired people seems to have filled my head with a zillion ideas for musical endeavours that could easily save the world.
Easily.
My response was to place a park bench on a newly formed iceberg or floating ice-shelf off the fast-moving coast of West Greenland. A bench which, in its fragility and remoteness, becomes a silent witness of the dramatic changes that are occurring in the Arctic.
A bench with nobody to sit on.
The rest. Please bring your own 100% post-consumer recycled barf bag.
